April 24th, 2018

Fiber builders and operators in and around the big NFL cities get most of the attention, but in today’s market substantial amounts of fiber are being built out in less traveled geographies. With 5G and the pressure to move content to the edge, we are only going to see that trend grow. One company taking on the challenge in southern Illinois is Clearwave Communications. With us today to give his perspective on it all is Clearwave President and CEO Matt Dement. [Read more →]

April 23rd, 2018

Looks like a bit of a slow start to the week if you don't count new regulatory interest in AT&T and Verizon regarding eSIM, but there were several interesting data center items from around the world late last week that I should have noted so here are a few quick takes: [Read more →]

April 19th, 2018

April 18th, 2018

The San Francisco Bay Area will soon have another large data center. CIM Group and fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty are teaming up for another development project in the city itself, just outside the central business district. [Read more →]

April 17th, 2018

While it's inorganic moves have been driving things for GTT lately, today they announced some organic network expansion. The global network operator has added a series of new PoPs in North America and Asia. [Read more →]

April 16th, 2018

April 16th, 2018

When tackling the opportunities in the telecommunications space, any leader knows how important actionable data is. One of the newer entrants in providing that data and a platform to manage it is Connected2Fiber, which recently raised $8M in their second round funding to enable its next round of growth. With us today to talk about Connected2Fiber’s unique approach is the company’s Founder and CEO, Ben Edmond. Prior to founding Connected2Fiber, Ben was Chief Revenue Officer at Global Capacity. [Read more →]

April 13th, 2018

In what will surely be one of the more eyebrow-raising bits of news for all of 2018, Elizabeth Ann Pierce, the former CEO of Quintillion, has been arrested by the FBI. According to reports (Capacity has a great summary), she used 'forged guaranteed revenue contracts' to convince investors to invest in the company. [Read more →]

April 12th, 2018

Zayo has plans to further build out its fiber network north of the border, according to a release yesterday. With an unnamed 'global cloud provider' in tow, the fiber builder and operator will be extending its footprint in Montreal. [Read more →]

April 11th, 2018

April 11th, 2018

Spring must finally be here this time, as the aromas of last year's wireless M&A rumors are once again wafting through the air. Reuters recently reported that Spring and T-Mobile US are talking merger. Yes, yet again. [Read more →]

April 10th, 2018

MEF's quest to standardize the next generation of network automation passed several new milestones this morning on the road to MEF 3.0. The organization has published two key standards and kicked off a new class of professional certification options. [Read more →]

April 10th, 2018

April 9th, 2018

The data center space has been a very dynamic one for a long time now, with both inorganic and organic activity continuing without pause. One of the newer players to start making national waves has been Digital Bridge’s DataBank. DataBank has been making deals and adding new markets over the last year or two, and seems likely to continue to do so aggressively. With us today is industry veteran and DataBank CEO Raul K. Martynek, who was here for an industry spotlight back in 2015 during his previous gig. [Read more →]

April 9th, 2018

This Industry Viewpoint was contributed by David W Wang

As SD-WAN entering mainstream network services, people often think it as an innovative solution riding over the public Internet, bidding farewell to the private networks like MPLS traverses on. In reality [Read more →]